[66550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Thu Jan 15 18:01:57 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:00:59 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <1074206294.2048.55.camel@grendel>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Chris Brenton wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
>
>>And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in
>>the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single
>>point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.
>>
>>
>
>Not sure if its still the same setup, but up till 2 years ago this
>consisted of 6 HTTP proxies sitting on the same class C. Best part was
>they were _open_ proxies, so it was not uncommon to have a .net or .uk
>attacker bounce through them on the way to attacking your site.
>
>
Not open anymore (took some persuading with SORBS, but they got closed -
doubt it was just SORBS, but I know he complained many times because
they were running a lot of mail through the same subnet as well)
/ Mat
